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<updated>2018-01-17T08:45:17Z</updated>
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<title>KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T08:45:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
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<published>2017-12-15T01:40:50Z</published>
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commit e39d200fa5bf5b94a0948db0dae44c1b73b84a56 upstream.

Reported by syzkaller:

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in write_mmio+0x11e/0x270 [kvm]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8803259df7f8 by task syz-executor/32298

  CPU: 6 PID: 32298 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G           OE    4.15.0-rc2+ #18
  Hardware name: LENOVO ThinkCentre M8500t-N000/SHARKBAY, BIOS FBKTC1AUS 02/16/2016
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0xab/0xe1
   print_address_description+0x6b/0x290
   kasan_report+0x28a/0x370
   write_mmio+0x11e/0x270 [kvm]
   emulator_read_write_onepage+0x311/0x600 [kvm]
   emulator_read_write+0xef/0x240 [kvm]
   emulator_fix_hypercall+0x105/0x150 [kvm]
   em_hypercall+0x2b/0x80 [kvm]
   x86_emulate_insn+0x2b1/0x1640 [kvm]
   x86_emulate_instruction+0x39a/0xb90 [kvm]
   handle_exception+0x1b4/0x4d0 [kvm_intel]
   vcpu_enter_guest+0x15a0/0x2640 [kvm]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x549/0x7d0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x479/0x880 [kvm]
   do_vfs_ioctl+0x142/0x9a0
   SyS_ioctl+0x74/0x80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0x9a

The path of patched vmmcall will patch 3 bytes opcode 0F 01 C1(vmcall)
to the guest memory, however, write_mmio tracepoint always prints 8 bytes
through *(u64 *)val since kvm splits the mmio access into 8 bytes. This
leaks 5 bytes from the kernel stack (CVE-2017-17741).  This patch fixes
it by just accessing the bytes which we operate on.

Before patch:

syz-executor-5567  [007] .... 51370.561696: kvm_mmio: mmio write len 3 gpa 0x10 val 0x1ffff10077c1010f

After patch:

syz-executor-13416 [002] .... 51302.299573: kvm_mmio: mmio write len 3 gpa 0x10 val 0xc1010f

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny &lt;darren.kenny@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Fix tracepoint storage issues with svc_recv and svc_rqst_status</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:40:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>trond.myklebust@primarydata.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T21:31:42Z</published>
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commit e9d4bf219c83d09579bc62512fea2ca10f025d93 upstream.

There is no guarantee that either the request or the svc_xprt exist
by the time we get round to printing the trace message.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>sched/debug: Add explicit TASK_PARKED printing</title>
<updated>2017-09-29T09:02:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T16:37:28Z</published>
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Currently TASK_PARKED is masqueraded as TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, give it
its own print state because it will not in fact get woken by regular
wakeups and is a long-term state.

This requires moving TASK_PARKED into the TASK_REPORT mask, and since
that latter needs to be a contiguous bitmask, we need to shuffle the
bits around a bit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/debug: Add explicit TASK_IDLE printing</title>
<updated>2017-09-29T09:02:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T16:30:40Z</published>
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Markus reported that kthreads that idle using TASK_IDLE instead of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE are reported in as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and things
like htop mark those red.

This is undesirable, so add an explicit state for TASK_IDLE.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf &lt;markus@trippelsdorf.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/tracing: Fix trace_sched_switch task-state printing</title>
<updated>2017-09-29T08:09:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T16:19:53Z</published>
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Convert trace_sched_switch to use the common task-state helpers and
fix the "X" and "Z" order, possibly they ended up in the wrong order
because TASK_REPORT has them in the wrong order too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-09-16T18:28:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-16T18:28:59Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix hotplug deadlock in hv_netvsc, from Stephen Hemminger.

 2) Fix double-free in rmnet driver, from Dan Carpenter.

 3) INET connection socket layer can double put request sockets, fix
    from Eric Dumazet.

 4) Don't match collect metadata-mode tunnels if the device is down,
    from Haishuang Yan.

 5) Do not perform TSO6/GSO on ipv6 packets with extensions headers in
    be2net driver, from Suresh Reddy.

 6) Fix scaling error in gen_estimator, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Fix 64-bit statistics deadlock in systemport driver, from Florian
    Fainelli.

 8) Fix use-after-free in sctp_sock_dump, from Xin Long.

 9) Reject invalid BPF_END instructions in verifier, from Edward Cree.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (43 commits)
  mlxsw: spectrum_router: Only handle IPv4 and IPv6 events
  Documentation: link in networking docs
  tcp: fix data delivery rate
  bpf/verifier: reject BPF_ALU64|BPF_END
  sctp: do not mark sk dumped when inet_sctp_diag_fill returns err
  sctp: fix an use-after-free issue in sctp_sock_dump
  netvsc: increase default receive buffer size
  tcp: update skb-&gt;skb_mstamp more carefully
  net: ipv4: fix l3slave check for index returned in IP_PKTINFO
  net: smsc911x: Quieten netif during suspend
  net: systemport: Fix 64-bit stats deadlock
  net: vrf: avoid gcc-4.6 warning
  qed: remove unnecessary call to memset
  tg3: clean up redundant initialization of tnapi
  tls: make tls_sw_free_resources static
  sctp: potential read out of bounds in sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled()
  MAINTAINERS: review Renesas DT bindings as well
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix scaling error in bytes/packets samples
  nfp: wait for the NSP resource to appear on boot
  nfp: wait for board state before talking to the NSP
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T22:43:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T22:43:55Z</published>
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 - PPC bugfixes
 - RCU splat fix
 - swait races fix
 - pointless userspace-triggerable BUG() fix
 - misc fixes for KVM_RUN corner cases
 - nested virt correctness fixes + one host DoS
 - some cleanups
 - clang build fix
 - fix AMD AVIC with default QEMU command line options
 - x86 bugfixes

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (28 commits)
  kvm: nVMX: Handle deferred early VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME failure properly
  kvm: vmx: Handle VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME failure properly
  kvm: nVMX: Remove nested_vmx_succeed after successful VM-entry
  kvm,mips: Fix potential swait_active() races
  kvm,powerpc: Serialize wq active checks in ops-&gt;vcpu_kick
  kvm: Serialize wq active checks in kvm_vcpu_wake_up()
  kvm,x86: Fix apf_task_wake_one() wq serialization
  kvm,lapic: Justify use of swait_active()
  kvm,async_pf: Use swq_has_sleeper()
  sched/wait: Add swq_has_sleeper()
  KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ
  KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD
  kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8
  KVM: trace events: update list of exit reasons
  KVM: async_pf: Fix #DF due to inject "Page not Present" and "Page Ready" exceptions simultaneously
  KVM: X86: Don't block vCPU if there is pending exception
  KVM: SVM: Add irqchip_split() checks before enabling AVIC
  KVM: Add struct kvm_vcpu pointer parameter to get_enable_apicv()
  KVM: SVM: Refactor AVIC vcpu initialization into avic_init_vcpu()
  KVM: x86: fix clang build
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: trace events: update list of exit reasons</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T16:54:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ladi Prosek</name>
<email>lprosek@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-14T09:50:07Z</published>
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Adding entries for exit reasons 23 - 27:

  KVM_EXIT_EPR
  KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT
  KVM_EXIT_S390_STSI
  KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI
  KVM_EXIT_HYPERV

Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek &lt;lprosek@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T01:53:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-13T23:28:29Z</published>
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GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE.  It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation.  As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag.  How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.

The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory.  So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.

I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification.  I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring.  This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.

I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse.  Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL.  Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.

I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.

This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic.  It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users.  The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers.  So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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